Republican Hypocrisy and Double Standards Commence
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1margd
Confirmation of Biden nominees.
Not waiting for the new (possibly D) Congress to be seated, committees in the R Senate began gathering info. Never mind that Trump Admin was awash with 'Actings' and the Senate confirmed Trump-nominated judges deemed unqualified by the ABA.
Dr. Jill
Willing to overlook FLOTUS Melania and COS Mark Meadow's misrepresentation of their educational attainments, conservative media and social media challenge Dr Jill Biden's honorific.
"Fckers"
Senator Rubio wilts at insult from Biden operative, never mind the sewage spewing from the White House these past four years. And never mind 300,000+ dead...
Neera Tanden
OMB nominee's old tweets likewise bruised the tender feelings of R senators whose confirmation she needs.
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Not waiting for the new (possibly D) Congress to be seated, committees in the R Senate began gathering info. Never mind that Trump Admin was awash with 'Actings' and the Senate confirmed Trump-nominated judges deemed unqualified by the ABA.
Dr. Jill
Willing to overlook FLOTUS Melania and COS Mark Meadow's misrepresentation of their educational attainments, conservative media and social media challenge Dr Jill Biden's honorific.
"Fckers"
Senator Rubio wilts at insult from Biden operative, never mind the sewage spewing from the White House these past four years. And never mind 300,000+ dead...
Neera Tanden
OMB nominee's old tweets likewise bruised the tender feelings of R senators whose confirmation she needs.
__________________?
2margd
A democrat breaches decorum.
Republicans howl cynically—as though they hadn’t just spent four years in the thrall of a man who took a flamethrower to all notions of decency, the rule of law and democratic values.
Everyone points this out to them.
All of Twitter henceforward.
- Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25 | 8:03 AM · Dec 17, 2020
Republicans howl cynically—as though they hadn’t just spent four years in the thrall of a man who took a flamethrower to all notions of decency, the rule of law and democratic values.
Everyone points this out to them.
All of Twitter henceforward.
- Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25 | 8:03 AM · Dec 17, 2020
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4margd
Marco Rubio @marcorubio · 15h:
Biden talks about unity and healing, but you want to know what they really think?
Read how the person he wants as the next WH deputy chief of staff called Republicans in Congress a bunch of f***ers
Steve Vladeck (U TX Law) @steve_vladeck | 8:43 AM · Dec 17, 2020:
Says the guy who literally said nary a word when @RepTedYoho referred to aoc
—a specific, sitting member of Congress—as a “f**king b**ch.”
Biden talks about unity and healing, but you want to know what they really think?
Read how the person he wants as the next WH deputy chief of staff called Republicans in Congress a bunch of f***ers
Steve Vladeck (U TX Law) @steve_vladeck | 8:43 AM · Dec 17, 2020:
Says the guy who literally said nary a word when @RepTedYoho referred to aoc
—a specific, sitting member of Congress—as a “f**king b**ch.”
5Earthling1
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7margd
Then there's Hunter Biden whose sins are no doubt a pittance in comparison to our current crime family's.
8lriley
The Hunter Biden thing does seem to me pretty small potatoes especially in comparison to a lot of shit that went on in the last 4 years. That said I think it's pretty clear that Hunter is something of a fuck up and didn't really bring anything to the table for the Ukrainian company he worked for other than his last name. There is some stink to this and it does taint father Joe a bit. I would like if ambitious politicians would take note of this in the future--that's more of a wish than a probability though. But really expect republicans to be hammering away relentlessly at this the next four years. To me this is unforced error material.
9Limelite
Ooooohhhhh -- VULGARITY!
But not Trump, ever. Easily triggered hypocrite Republicans. None righteous, all self-righteous.
But not Trump, ever. Easily triggered hypocrite Republicans. None righteous, all self-righteous.
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Jake Sherman (Politico etc.) @JakeSherman | 11:45 AM · Dec 18, 2020:
Ron Johnson is on the floor speaking about the debt and “mortgaging our childrens future.”
This is in response to Hawley calling for $1,200 checks.
Bill Kristol (Bulwark etc.) @BillKristol | 12:06 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
Ron Johnson has been a loyal supporter of Donald Trump, under whom the federal debt has increased roughly seven trillion dollars.
Robert Reich (frmr Labor Sec'y) @RBReich | 4:10 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
We have a literal yacht tax deduction in this country, and our politicians have the nerve to call a survival check a handout.
Eric Feigl-Ding (epidemiologist economist) @DrEricDing | 7:36 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
Pandemic relief in each country from its government: (up to %wages)
100% of wages in Japan
90% Netherlands
90% Norway
87% Germany
84% France
80% Italy
80% UK
75% Canada
...
0% USA
Tiny checks or limited unemployment–not nearly enough. #COVID19
Image--Public Citizen data, above ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1340093614089773057/photo/1 )
Ron Johnson is on the floor speaking about the debt and “mortgaging our childrens future.”
This is in response to Hawley calling for $1,200 checks.
Bill Kristol (Bulwark etc.) @BillKristol | 12:06 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
Ron Johnson has been a loyal supporter of Donald Trump, under whom the federal debt has increased roughly seven trillion dollars.
Robert Reich (frmr Labor Sec'y) @RBReich | 4:10 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
We have a literal yacht tax deduction in this country, and our politicians have the nerve to call a survival check a handout.
Eric Feigl-Ding (epidemiologist economist) @DrEricDing | 7:36 PM · Dec 18, 2020:
Pandemic relief in each country from its government: (up to %wages)
100% of wages in Japan
90% Netherlands
90% Norway
87% Germany
84% France
80% Italy
80% UK
75% Canada
...
0% USA
Tiny checks or limited unemployment–not nearly enough. #COVID19
Image--Public Citizen data, above ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1340093614089773057/photo/1 )
11lriley
#10--Wisconsin republicans are about as bad as it gets. Johnson all of a sudden is a deficit hawk again. That's his way of acknowledging Trump's defeat.
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Nit-pick Nazi strives for relevance. Must be loaded with nits, 'cause can't stop pickin'.
Just like the Republicans who refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing to prevent spreading Covid-10, so do they like sleeping in the same refusenik bed at their slumber parties.
Just like the Republicans who refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing to prevent spreading Covid-10, so do they like sleeping in the same refusenik bed at their slumber parties.
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Jess Piper @EnglishTeach07 | 3:44 PM · Jan 2, 2021:
Thinking Colin Kaepernick is disloyal for kneeling
while cheering Hawley’s ripping up of the Constitution
is a lack of critical thinking.
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Sailor Michael @Megawatts55 | 2:23 PM · Jan 12, 2021
They didn't want to give immigrants toothpaste nor soap
but gave Jake* his organic food..
* Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, furry, horned invader of Capitol
0:25 ( https://twitter.com/LSRCHRDS/status/1349128956511985664 )
1:58 ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1349355274910511109 )
They didn't want to give immigrants toothpaste nor soap
but gave Jake* his organic food..
* Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, furry, horned invader of Capitol
0:25 ( https://twitter.com/LSRCHRDS/status/1349128956511985664 )
1:58 ( https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1349355274910511109 )
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Republican Congressman Wants Mulligan on Impeachment Vote
Congressman Mike McCaul (R-Austin) releases statement wishing he'd given a crap about not voting to impeach the Weaponizer of the Big Lie. He just can't stop being an appeaser instead of a leader.
He and several other Repub Reps. are whining that there wasn't enough time before they had to vote, and that they were rushed to judgment. Oh? Being witnesses as well as victims of the attack; hearing Trump's own words; hearing the gangs chant "Donald Trump sent us," while you hid and huddled, as well as ALL the video showing and telling you that these barbarians were at your gate because the Vandal-in-Chief sent them wasn't enough?
He and his fellow traveling weasel-minded Republicans need to answer the question: Just what is enough incitement to death, mayhem, and destruction is enough for you to vote to impeach the inciter? Just what is enough lying about the election outcome and attempts to overthrow the government you purportedly serve enough lying and insurrection for you to vote to impeach the betrayer?
Maybe you're too stupid for high office and should resign. Better yet, maybe you should be disciplined by Pelosi and recalled by your district as unfit to serve.
Congressman Mike McCaul (R-Austin) releases statement wishing he'd given a crap about not voting to impeach the Weaponizer of the Big Lie. He just can't stop being an appeaser instead of a leader.
"I did not come to this decision lightly. And I truly fear there may be more facts that come to light in the future that will put me on the wrong side of this debate.”What he meant and should have said is. . ."It mildly worries me that more will come out and I will be proven to be on the wrong side of history I will be proven to have done the wrong thing. Poor me, between a rock and a hard place." -- MSNBC Live with Katy Turr today.
He and several other Repub Reps. are whining that there wasn't enough time before they had to vote, and that they were rushed to judgment. Oh? Being witnesses as well as victims of the attack; hearing Trump's own words; hearing the gangs chant "Donald Trump sent us," while you hid and huddled, as well as ALL the video showing and telling you that these barbarians were at your gate because the Vandal-in-Chief sent them wasn't enough?
He and his fellow traveling weasel-minded Republicans need to answer the question: Just what is enough incitement to death, mayhem, and destruction is enough for you to vote to impeach the inciter? Just what is enough lying about the election outcome and attempts to overthrow the government you purportedly serve enough lying and insurrection for you to vote to impeach the betrayer?
Maybe you're too stupid for high office and should resign. Better yet, maybe you should be disciplined by Pelosi and recalled by your district as unfit to serve.
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Al Franken was pressured to resign from the Senate. But Josh Hawley is a member in good standing?
Katie Hill was pressured to resign from the House. But Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member in good standing?
- Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 9:23 PM · Jan 29, 2021
Katie Hill was pressured to resign from the House. But Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member in good standing?
- Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 9:23 PM · Jan 29, 2021
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Norman Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute, the Atlantic) @NormOrnstein | 9:46 PM · Jan 29, 2021:
When Mitch McConnell did the ginormous tax cut for the rich, he and his Senate Republicans bypassed the committee and wrote it with a small group behind closed doors. No Dems. Repeal and replace? Same thing. Now these guys whine about Biden?
From the moment he put forward his package, they said there was no need, to wait for months-- those are the more accommodating ones. They have their chance to get input. The Chutzpah is breathtaking. And too many in the press corps just repeat their whining dissembling.
When Mitch McConnell did the ginormous tax cut for the rich, he and his Senate Republicans bypassed the committee and wrote it with a small group behind closed doors. No Dems. Repeal and replace? Same thing. Now these guys whine about Biden?
From the moment he put forward his package, they said there was no need, to wait for months-- those are the more accommodating ones. They have their chance to get input. The Chutzpah is breathtaking. And too many in the press corps just repeat their whining dissembling.
192wonderY
“ Republicans do the wrong thing so consistently that even their gaslighting and debasement has become boring to chronicle. How long can you watch a dog lick its own butt before wondering if there is more to life?”
- Elie Mystal
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-impeachment-trial-jail/
- Elie Mystal
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-impeachment-trial-jail/
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Dem Sen Manchin votes for Kavanaugh, but not Tanden?
‘A double standard going on’: Democrats accuse GOP and Manchin of bias on Biden nominations
Charges of sexism and white male privilege are flying as Neera Tanden’s nomination looks increasingly doomed.
LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO | 02/22/2021
...Inside the White House, it did not go unnoticed that many of the lawmakers objecting to Tanden’s social media missives—including Manchin—voted to confirm Richard Grenell, the acid-tongued Trump booster, to the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany. Democrats on and off the Hill likewise argued that Tanden, who is of South Asian descent, was one of several nominees of color being treated differently than Trump-era nominees who lobbed personal attacks or expressed bigoted views...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/22/biden-nominations-gop-manchin-tanden-47...
‘A double standard going on’: Democrats accuse GOP and Manchin of bias on Biden nominations
Charges of sexism and white male privilege are flying as Neera Tanden’s nomination looks increasingly doomed.
LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO | 02/22/2021
...Inside the White House, it did not go unnoticed that many of the lawmakers objecting to Tanden’s social media missives—including Manchin—voted to confirm Richard Grenell, the acid-tongued Trump booster, to the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany. Democrats on and off the Hill likewise argued that Tanden, who is of South Asian descent, was one of several nominees of color being treated differently than Trump-era nominees who lobbed personal attacks or expressed bigoted views...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/22/biden-nominations-gop-manchin-tanden-47...
21Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-complains-about-merrick-garlands...
Tucker Carlson Complains About Merrick Garland’s Pledge to Prosecute White Supremacists in Capitol Attack
This white nationalist/supremacist didn't recognize the fellow travelers who took part in the riot on January 6. He has mental-health issues and vision problems on top of all of his other failings. And, Murdoch recently enhanced his duties at the FOX News channel, of course. Is TC trying to convince himself and his viewers that they are not members of a white nationalist/supremacist movement??? It not being a "white" movement will not fly!
Tucker Carlson Complains About Merrick Garland’s Pledge to Prosecute White Supremacists in Capitol Attack
This white nationalist/supremacist didn't recognize the fellow travelers who took part in the riot on January 6. He has mental-health issues and vision problems on top of all of his other failings. And, Murdoch recently enhanced his duties at the FOX News channel, of course. Is TC trying to convince himself and his viewers that they are not members of a white nationalist/supremacist movement??? It not being a "white" movement will not fly!
22lriley
#20--FWIW if anyone were to have a real honest to goodness gripe against Tanden it would be Sen. Sanders. But he seemed to accept her apology and I think his thing is Biden's the president--let him choose who he wants. It's interesting as well that Manchin and Sanders don't seem to be on the same page very much and I don't think Tanden has ever really attacked Manchin and yet here he is set to kill her nomination. Manchin and Sinema have a lot of power being the two democratic Senators most to the right.
23Limelite
BWAHAHAHAHA! and BTW, Hell, NO!
Anti-science Sen. Daines (R-MT) urges Interior nominee Deb Haaland to delete tweet saying ‘Republicans don’t believe in science.’ You're kidding, aren't you Stevie?
Anti-science Sen. Daines (R-MT) urges Interior nominee Deb Haaland to delete tweet saying ‘Republicans don’t believe in science.’ You're kidding, aren't you Stevie?
Daines is anti-LGBT:
@SteveDaines
#SCOTUS is overriding the will of the people of Montana who have defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
1:55 PM · Jun 26, 2015
He is pro-coal and fossil fuels and doesn't believe in green energy or that climate change is real:
@SteveDaines
Jan 12, 2016
Mr. President, coal keeps the lights on and it will continue to power the world for decades to come. #SOTU
@SteveDaines
Replying to @SteveDaines
The #GreenNewDeal would leave our rural communities in the dark, literally. When it’s -40 out, our wind turbines stop turning. What picks up the slack and keeps the heat on for our families and businesses? COAL!
12:25 PM · Mar 26, 2019
Daines, according to a local Montana news report, is the "most conservative U.S. House member in Montana history."
Another local Montana news outlet asked why Sen. Daines is "Supporting the Anti-Science, Anti-Public Health Turning Point USA?" TPUSA is a far right wing organization very closely tied to both President Donald Trump and his son, Don Jr. It former communications director once suggested the only problem with Adolph Hitler was he was globalist.
Senator Daines is so anti-science he believes in creationism – or at least thinks it should be taught in science classes.
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George Conway @gtconway3d | 10:12 AM · Feb 28, 2021:
After watching Dems call for Cuomo's resignation, I now more than ever can't get over the fact that the former guy had dozens of sexual abuse allegations against him, including unwanted touching, then was accused of rape by a woman who contemporaneously told others about it, ...
... to which he responded (falsely, because photographs existed) that he never met the woman and that she was "not his type," and yet he was allowed to remain in office long enough to cause countless unnecessary deaths from disease and then to try to end democracy in America.
After watching Dems call for Cuomo's resignation, I now more than ever can't get over the fact that the former guy had dozens of sexual abuse allegations against him, including unwanted touching, then was accused of rape by a woman who contemporaneously told others about it, ...
... to which he responded (falsely, because photographs existed) that he never met the woman and that she was "not his type," and yet he was allowed to remain in office long enough to cause countless unnecessary deaths from disease and then to try to end democracy in America.
25margd
38,000 gun deaths a year in US: who needs gun control?
2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 253 new voter suppression laws
- Ari Berman @AriBerman | 9:53 AM · Mar 17, 2021
2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 253 new voter suppression laws
- Ari Berman @AriBerman | 9:53 AM · Mar 17, 2021
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Daniel Dale (CNN) @ddale8 | 11:04 PM · Mar 20, 2021:
Again: All 3 check bills, 2 under Trump and 1 under Biden, sent checks to prisoners and some (unconfirmed number of) undocumented people who have SocSecurity numbers (through, say, now-expired visas).
Cruz voted against bills 2 and 3, but this stuff isn’t a new “Dems” move.
Quote Tweet
Ted Cruz @tedcruz · 19h
Yep. And last week Dems sent $1400 taxpayer checks to millions of illegal aliens & criminals (including child molesters) currently in prison.
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Sen Cruz lies, too:
Democrats want 'illegal aliens and child molesters' to vote, Ted Cruz says – report
Martin Pengelly and agencies | 20 Mar 2021
Texas senator tells rightwing group Republicans must block For the People Act (HR1) or lose power for years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/ted-cruz-voting-rights-alec-demo...
Again: All 3 check bills, 2 under Trump and 1 under Biden, sent checks to prisoners and some (unconfirmed number of) undocumented people who have SocSecurity numbers (through, say, now-expired visas).
Cruz voted against bills 2 and 3, but this stuff isn’t a new “Dems” move.
Quote Tweet
Ted Cruz @tedcruz · 19h
Yep. And last week Dems sent $1400 taxpayer checks to millions of illegal aliens & criminals (including child molesters) currently in prison.
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Sen Cruz lies, too:
Democrats want 'illegal aliens and child molesters' to vote, Ted Cruz says – report
Martin Pengelly and agencies | 20 Mar 2021
Texas senator tells rightwing group Republicans must block For the People Act (HR1) or lose power for years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/ted-cruz-voting-rights-alec-demo...
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Y'know the QAnon conspiracy theory re Dems & pedophilia? If charges proven, will they turn on Rep Gaetz or generate still more "theory" on how he's gone undercover or some such rubbish. (Reportedly, Gaetz is musing about not running again to take a job with NewsMax...)
Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl
An inquiry into the Florida congressman was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, people briefed on it said.
Michael S. Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicholas Fandos | March 30, 2021
Representative Matt Gaetz (38), Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him...
In 2017, Mr. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against a law that gave the federal government more power and money to fight human trafficking...
Mr. Gaetz’s personal life has gained attention before. Last summer, he announced that he had a son, Nestor Galban, 19, though Mr. Gaetz said he was not Mr. Galban’s biological father, nor had he adopted him. Mr. Galban had been 12 when they met and had come to the United States from Cuba; Mr. Gaetz was at the time dating Mr. Galban’s sister.
...Mr. Gaetz is now engaged to an analyst named Ginger Luckey, 26, whom he proposed to at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 30...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-invest...
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Jeet Heer (The Nation) @HeerJeet | 7:04 PM · Mar 30, 2021
To be honest, I was expecting a very different Matt Gaetz sex scandal.
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Jon Cooper @joncoopertweets | 11:42 PM · Mar 30, 2021
Which do you prefer — #PizzaGaetz or #PedoGaetz?
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Ex-GOP official Joel Greenberg flaunted ties to Matt Gaetz. Then he was charged with child sex trafficking.
Katie Shepherd | March 31, 2021
Until last year, Joel Greenberg was an ascendant political player in Seminole County, Fla., where he unseated a longtime incumbent in the race for county tax collector, won a political battle to allow his deputies to carry guns on the job and flaunted his connections to prominent Republicans with close ties to President Donald Trump, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Roger Stone.
But last June his reputation fell apart in spectacular fashion when federal investigators arrested him on stalking and child sex trafficking charges, prompting his resignation.
On Tuesday, the case against Greenberg, 36, gained national prominence after the New York Times reported that it had also sparked a separate criminal probe into allegations that Gaetz had sex with a teenage girl...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/31/joel-greenberg-matt-gaetz-inves...
Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl
An inquiry into the Florida congressman was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, people briefed on it said.
Michael S. Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicholas Fandos | March 30, 2021
Representative Matt Gaetz (38), Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him...
In 2017, Mr. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against a law that gave the federal government more power and money to fight human trafficking...
Mr. Gaetz’s personal life has gained attention before. Last summer, he announced that he had a son, Nestor Galban, 19, though Mr. Gaetz said he was not Mr. Galban’s biological father, nor had he adopted him. Mr. Galban had been 12 when they met and had come to the United States from Cuba; Mr. Gaetz was at the time dating Mr. Galban’s sister.
...Mr. Gaetz is now engaged to an analyst named Ginger Luckey, 26, whom he proposed to at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 30...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-invest...
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Jeet Heer (The Nation) @HeerJeet | 7:04 PM · Mar 30, 2021
To be honest, I was expecting a very different Matt Gaetz sex scandal.
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Jon Cooper @joncoopertweets | 11:42 PM · Mar 30, 2021
Which do you prefer — #PizzaGaetz or #PedoGaetz?
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Ex-GOP official Joel Greenberg flaunted ties to Matt Gaetz. Then he was charged with child sex trafficking.
Katie Shepherd | March 31, 2021
Until last year, Joel Greenberg was an ascendant political player in Seminole County, Fla., where he unseated a longtime incumbent in the race for county tax collector, won a political battle to allow his deputies to carry guns on the job and flaunted his connections to prominent Republicans with close ties to President Donald Trump, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Roger Stone.
But last June his reputation fell apart in spectacular fashion when federal investigators arrested him on stalking and child sex trafficking charges, prompting his resignation.
On Tuesday, the case against Greenberg, 36, gained national prominence after the New York Times reported that it had also sparked a separate criminal probe into allegations that Gaetz had sex with a teenage girl...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/31/joel-greenberg-matt-gaetz-inves...
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EkajTheOrc @EkajTheOrc | 2:07 PM · Mar 30, 2021:
GOP: A vaccine passport is evil and having to require these papers are evil.
Also GOP: You want to vote? I NEED TO SEE ALL YOUR PAPERS AND IDENTIFICATION RECORDS AND THE RESULTS OF A DRUG TEST AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS!
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0:53 Marjorie Greene Taylor " Biden's mark of the Beast" ( https://twitter.com/EkajTheOrc/status/1376959297658097665 )
GOP: A vaccine passport is evil and having to require these papers are evil.
Also GOP: You want to vote? I NEED TO SEE ALL YOUR PAPERS AND IDENTIFICATION RECORDS AND THE RESULTS OF A DRUG TEST AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS!
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0:53 Marjorie Greene Taylor " Biden's mark of the Beast" ( https://twitter.com/EkajTheOrc/status/1376959297658097665 )
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar | 5:30 PM · Apr 2, 2021
A lot of conservatives who believe government shouldn’t tell businesses what to do
are mad about the biggest baseball company making a choice of its own volition
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Rep. Jeff Duncan @RepJeffDuncan | 3:59 PM · Apr 2, 2021
In light of MLB's stance to undermine election integrity laws,
I have instructed my staff to begin drafting legislation to remove Major League Baseball's federal antitrust exception.
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'21 All-Star Game, Draft moved from Atlanta
Anthony Castrovince | April 2, 2021
Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft, originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, to a to-be-determined location.
The decision comes a little more than a week after the passage of S.B. 202, a Georgia law that President Joe Biden criticized earlier this week, saying that it will restrict voting access for residents of the state.
Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that the decision to move the All-Star Game was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport” and was made after consultation with teams, former and current players, the MLB Players Association and The Players Alliance, among others.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” Manfred said. “In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.”...
https://www.mlb.com/news/2021-all-star-game-draft-relocated
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ETA: Trump sez cancel MLB?
Obama congratulates MLB for 'taking a stand' against Georgia election law as Trump calls for boycott
Veronica Stracqualursi | April 3, 2021
Obama on Saturday congratulated the league "for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens," following MLB's Friday announcement. The Democrat's tweeted support of the move struck a starkly different tone from his Republican successor's statement late Friday that called for a boycott of baseball and all of the "woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections."
...GA Gov Brian Kemp blasted the MLB's decision during a Saturday news conference as caving to "fear and lies from liberal activists" and putting "the wishes" of Biden and Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat and voting rights advocate, "ahead of the economic well-being of hard-working Georgians who were counting on the All-Star Game for a paycheck."
Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday that the MLB's decision would likely be the "first of many boycotts of our state to come" and urged Republican state lawmakers, who passed the measure, to repeal it or make changes.
Bottoms told CNN that while she doesn't like MLB's decision to pull the game from her city, "I certainly understand it," adding that "it is hurting our economy and it's my hope that, finally, leaders across the state will listen."
"Just as the legislators and the governor made the decision to go forward with this bill, people are making decisions not to come to our state. And it's going to impact millions of Georgians, employment, small businesses, our corporations, and it's very unfortunate," she said...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/politics/obama-trump-mlb-all-star-game-georgia-vo...
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ETA: Cancel much?
Donald Trump Demands Boycott of Coke, Delta, UPS in Georgia Voter Law Fight
Scott McDonald | 4/3/21
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-boycott-coke-delta-ups-georgia-vot...
A lot of conservatives who believe government shouldn’t tell businesses what to do
are mad about the biggest baseball company making a choice of its own volition
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Rep. Jeff Duncan @RepJeffDuncan | 3:59 PM · Apr 2, 2021
In light of MLB's stance to undermine election integrity laws,
I have instructed my staff to begin drafting legislation to remove Major League Baseball's federal antitrust exception.
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'21 All-Star Game, Draft moved from Atlanta
Anthony Castrovince | April 2, 2021
Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft, originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, to a to-be-determined location.
The decision comes a little more than a week after the passage of S.B. 202, a Georgia law that President Joe Biden criticized earlier this week, saying that it will restrict voting access for residents of the state.
Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that the decision to move the All-Star Game was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport” and was made after consultation with teams, former and current players, the MLB Players Association and The Players Alliance, among others.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” Manfred said. “In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.”...
https://www.mlb.com/news/2021-all-star-game-draft-relocated
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ETA: Trump sez cancel MLB?
Obama congratulates MLB for 'taking a stand' against Georgia election law as Trump calls for boycott
Veronica Stracqualursi | April 3, 2021
Obama on Saturday congratulated the league "for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens," following MLB's Friday announcement. The Democrat's tweeted support of the move struck a starkly different tone from his Republican successor's statement late Friday that called for a boycott of baseball and all of the "woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections."
...GA Gov Brian Kemp blasted the MLB's decision during a Saturday news conference as caving to "fear and lies from liberal activists" and putting "the wishes" of Biden and Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat and voting rights advocate, "ahead of the economic well-being of hard-working Georgians who were counting on the All-Star Game for a paycheck."
Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday that the MLB's decision would likely be the "first of many boycotts of our state to come" and urged Republican state lawmakers, who passed the measure, to repeal it or make changes.
Bottoms told CNN that while she doesn't like MLB's decision to pull the game from her city, "I certainly understand it," adding that "it is hurting our economy and it's my hope that, finally, leaders across the state will listen."
"Just as the legislators and the governor made the decision to go forward with this bill, people are making decisions not to come to our state. And it's going to impact millions of Georgians, employment, small businesses, our corporations, and it's very unfortunate," she said...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/politics/obama-trump-mlb-all-star-game-georgia-vo...
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ETA: Cancel much?
Donald Trump Demands Boycott of Coke, Delta, UPS in Georgia Voter Law Fight
Scott McDonald | 4/3/21
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-boycott-coke-delta-ups-georgia-vot...
30margd
From the "Corporations are people" file:
‘Stay out of politics,’ Republican leader McConnell tells U.S. CEOs, warns of ‘consequences’
Richard Cowan | April 5, 2021
...new voting law in Georgia that has been criticized as restricting votes among minorities and the poor.
In a sign of a growing rift in the decades-old alliance between the conservative party and U.S. corporations, McConnell said: “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights...Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order,” McConnell told a news conference in his home state of Kentucky...
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/stay-out-of-politics-re...
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ETA
Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 8:01 PM · Apr 5, 2021:
Republicans:
Money is speech.
Corporations are people.
Citizens United was great.
...
Corporations begin to speak up in ways Republicans don’t like.
...
Republicans:
Corporations, STFU.
‘Stay out of politics,’ Republican leader McConnell tells U.S. CEOs, warns of ‘consequences’
Richard Cowan | April 5, 2021
...new voting law in Georgia that has been criticized as restricting votes among minorities and the poor.
In a sign of a growing rift in the decades-old alliance between the conservative party and U.S. corporations, McConnell said: “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights...Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order,” McConnell told a news conference in his home state of Kentucky...
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/stay-out-of-politics-re...
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ETA
Bill Kristol @BillKristol | 8:01 PM · Apr 5, 2021:
Republicans:
Money is speech.
Corporations are people.
Citizens United was great.
...
Corporations begin to speak up in ways Republicans don’t like.
...
Republicans:
Corporations, STFU.
31margd
>29 margd: Trump: "Boycott Coke"
Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger | 5:02 PM · Apr 5, 2021
HOLY SHIT. busted.
Image-photo of Trump at desk w Coke ( https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger/status/1379177711252484099/photo/1 )
Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger | 5:02 PM · Apr 5, 2021
HOLY SHIT. busted.
Image-photo of Trump at desk w Coke ( https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger/status/1379177711252484099/photo/1 )
32margd
TED and LINDSEY! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody (4:26)
•Apr 5, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSSx5DXAO5I
•Apr 5, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSSx5DXAO5I
33margd
GOP Has Lost Credibility On Federal Debt Gripes, Chris Wallace Tells Sen. Roy Blunt
Mary Papenfuss | April 4, 2021, 11:07 PM·1 min read
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace fact-checked Republicans on Sunday when he told Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that the party had “lost credibility” when complaining about the federal deficit after pumping up the red ink during the Trump administration.
The fact arose in a discussion of President Joe Biden’s plan to invest in a $2 trillion national infrastructure program and to raise corporate taxes after they were slashed under Donald Trump’s leadership, from 35% to 21%.
“Some of your colleagues in the Republican Party are complaining” that Biden’s infrastructure program is “going to explode debt ... explode deficits,” Wallace noted.
But he pointed out to Blunt that under the Trump White House, the nation added more than $3 trillion to the national debt — even before the coronavirus pandemic — while slashing tax revenue by $1.5 trillion.
So “when I hear, for instance, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talking now about, ‘Well, debt and deficits,’ hasn’t the Republican Party, haven’t you, lost your credibility on this issue?” Wallace asked...
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/chris-wallace-roy-blunt-fox-news-federal-debt-030...
Mary Papenfuss | April 4, 2021, 11:07 PM·1 min read
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace fact-checked Republicans on Sunday when he told Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that the party had “lost credibility” when complaining about the federal deficit after pumping up the red ink during the Trump administration.
The fact arose in a discussion of President Joe Biden’s plan to invest in a $2 trillion national infrastructure program and to raise corporate taxes after they were slashed under Donald Trump’s leadership, from 35% to 21%.
“Some of your colleagues in the Republican Party are complaining” that Biden’s infrastructure program is “going to explode debt ... explode deficits,” Wallace noted.
But he pointed out to Blunt that under the Trump White House, the nation added more than $3 trillion to the national debt — even before the coronavirus pandemic — while slashing tax revenue by $1.5 trillion.
So “when I hear, for instance, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talking now about, ‘Well, debt and deficits,’ hasn’t the Republican Party, haven’t you, lost your credibility on this issue?” Wallace asked...
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/chris-wallace-roy-blunt-fox-news-federal-debt-030...
34lriley
#29–I suspect if Duncan’s staff does submit legislation to take away baseball’s antitrust protection it will never reach the house floor in this congress. It will get killed in committee. Elections have consequences.
#30–when have corporations not been involved in politics? Quite often it’s corporate lawyers writing the bills that a congressperson or a Senator attaches his name to. If there’s a rift between corporations and the Republican Party it’s not going to bode well for the Republican Party. We all know that corporations spend a shitload of money and that industries are much more likely to get the things they want than the population at large. Republicans have this strange idea that they now represent the working class but the working class these days is a lot more brown, black and female than it’s ever been and they certainly don’t represent them. They represent a lot of aggrieved white middle class and upper middle class professionals and retirees that they’ve decided are the working class and also a lot of poor whites particularly in the South and add in loads of evangelicals and the rapture happy and they certainly have racists, neo-nazi’s and klanners on their sides and lots of police. All that though is easily a minority of voters.
#30–when have corporations not been involved in politics? Quite often it’s corporate lawyers writing the bills that a congressperson or a Senator attaches his name to. If there’s a rift between corporations and the Republican Party it’s not going to bode well for the Republican Party. We all know that corporations spend a shitload of money and that industries are much more likely to get the things they want than the population at large. Republicans have this strange idea that they now represent the working class but the working class these days is a lot more brown, black and female than it’s ever been and they certainly don’t represent them. They represent a lot of aggrieved white middle class and upper middle class professionals and retirees that they’ve decided are the working class and also a lot of poor whites particularly in the South and add in loads of evangelicals and the rapture happy and they certainly have racists, neo-nazi’s and klanners on their sides and lots of police. All that though is easily a minority of voters.
35kiparsky
>30 margd: “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics."
LOL. Watching closely for the press conference where he announces his new policy of rejecting all campaign contributions from corporations and CEOs.
LOL. Watching closely for the press conference where he announces his new policy of rejecting all campaign contributions from corporations and CEOs.
36margd
The idea that broadband doesn't count as real infrastructure is
something conservatives made up five minutes ago and will be rigid orthodoxy five minutes from now.
Image-Ben Shapiro (Daily Wire) tweet ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/1 )
Image-Trump invests in rural Nebraska hi-speed, 2020 ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/2 )
Image-GW Bush's national Internet strategy, 2004 ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/3 )
- Matthew Yglesias (Slow Boring) @mattyglesias | 9:13 AM · Apr 6, 2021
something conservatives made up five minutes ago and will be rigid orthodoxy five minutes from now.
Image-Ben Shapiro (Daily Wire) tweet ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/1 )
Image-Trump invests in rural Nebraska hi-speed, 2020 ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/2 )
Image-GW Bush's national Internet strategy, 2004 ( https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1379422034837569540/photo/3 )
- Matthew Yglesias (Slow Boring) @mattyglesias | 9:13 AM · Apr 6, 2021
37prosfilaes
>36 margd: I'm curious about where the broadband money is going. Some of it could go to the urban poor, but for all we complain about Internet access in cities, rural Internet can be pretty awful. https://www.allconnect.com/blog/americas-broadband-divide-revealed shows some maps, and it looks pretty clear that the places that need better broadband are more red than blue. It wouldn't be the first time Republicans decided to screw their base to try and score points on Democrats.
39margd
Popcorn!
McConnell, GOP slam Biden's executive order on SCOTUS
Tal Axelrod - 04/09/21
McConnell in a statement said the order and growing calls from liberals to expand the high court marked “open disdain for judicial independence” and that Biden’s action marked a “direct assault” on the judiciary. “Rational observers know well there is nothing about the structure or operation of the judicial branch that requires ‘study,’ ...This faux-academic study of a nonexistent problem fits squarely within liberals’ years-long campaign to politicize the Court, intimidate its members, and subvert its independence...President Biden campaigned on a promise of lowering the temperature and uniting a divided nation...If he really meant it, he would stop giving oxygen to a dangerous, antiquated idea and stand up to the partisans hawking it.”
...“Make no mistake, this commission is simply another attempt by the Democrats to rewrite the rules — this time to expand the Supreme Court to a size sufficient to wash out the conservative justices appointed under President Trump,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.). “As Tennessee’s Senator, I vehemently oppose this effort to turn the Supreme Court and the federal courts into a rubber stamp for the Democrats’ activist agenda by overwhelming the bench with justices that will disregard the U.S. Constitution.”
“Whatever the commission says, the truth is that Democrats want to pack the Court to implement a leftist agenda that Americans don't want,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) tweeted...
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/547471-mcconnell-gop-slam-bidens-executive-o...
McConnell, GOP slam Biden's executive order on SCOTUS
Tal Axelrod - 04/09/21
McConnell in a statement said the order and growing calls from liberals to expand the high court marked “open disdain for judicial independence” and that Biden’s action marked a “direct assault” on the judiciary. “Rational observers know well there is nothing about the structure or operation of the judicial branch that requires ‘study,’ ...This faux-academic study of a nonexistent problem fits squarely within liberals’ years-long campaign to politicize the Court, intimidate its members, and subvert its independence...President Biden campaigned on a promise of lowering the temperature and uniting a divided nation...If he really meant it, he would stop giving oxygen to a dangerous, antiquated idea and stand up to the partisans hawking it.”
...“Make no mistake, this commission is simply another attempt by the Democrats to rewrite the rules — this time to expand the Supreme Court to a size sufficient to wash out the conservative justices appointed under President Trump,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.). “As Tennessee’s Senator, I vehemently oppose this effort to turn the Supreme Court and the federal courts into a rubber stamp for the Democrats’ activist agenda by overwhelming the bench with justices that will disregard the U.S. Constitution.”
“Whatever the commission says, the truth is that Democrats want to pack the Court to implement a leftist agenda that Americans don't want,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) tweeted...
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/547471-mcconnell-gop-slam-bidens-executive-o...
40margd
Free speech for me, but not for thee?
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says Costco has stopped selling his products
Lexi Lonas | 04/13/21
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell...said in February that more than 20 retailers decided not to sell his products anymore and that he lost $65 million for his support of former President Trump's election claims.
...Lindell believes Costco’s decision was a part of “cancel culture” that led other companies to drop him for his political beliefs...(“They are doing this because I’m speaking out about something I believe in”)
...There has been a petition with more than 108,000 signatures urging Costco, Walmart and Amazon to drop Lindell’s products.
...Lindell is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion for his false fraud claims that the use of Dominion voting machines cost Trump the election.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/547944-my-pillow-ceo-mike-lind...
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says Costco has stopped selling his products
Lexi Lonas | 04/13/21
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell...said in February that more than 20 retailers decided not to sell his products anymore and that he lost $65 million for his support of former President Trump's election claims.
...Lindell believes Costco’s decision was a part of “cancel culture” that led other companies to drop him for his political beliefs...(“They are doing this because I’m speaking out about something I believe in”)
...There has been a petition with more than 108,000 signatures urging Costco, Walmart and Amazon to drop Lindell’s products.
...Lindell is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion for his false fraud claims that the use of Dominion voting machines cost Trump the election.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/547944-my-pillow-ceo-mike-lind...
41margd
WEEKLY, Trump as President opined on cases, many under his authority...
Republican effort fails to censure Maxine Waters after Chauvin trial judge's admonishment
The resolution, introduced by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., went down on a party line vote.
Allan Smith and Alex Moe | April 20, 2021
...House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday introduced the resolution to censure Waters, saying her comments, "raised the potential for violence, directed lawlessness, and may have interfered with a co-equal branch of government."
The resolution was tabled with a 216-to-210 party-line vote.
Waters made the remarks while appearing at a racial justice protest Saturday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb near where the Chauvin trial is taking place that has been roiled by protests after Daunte Wright, 20, was killed by police this month.
"We've got to get more confrontational," Waters told reporters when asked what would happen if Chauvin is acquitted...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-defend-maxine-waters-gop-cri...
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ETA
McEnany lectures Biden: 'It's the role of the president of the United States to stay back, to not inflame'
David Edwards | April 20, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/kayleigh-mcenany-derek-chauvin/
Republican effort fails to censure Maxine Waters after Chauvin trial judge's admonishment
The resolution, introduced by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., went down on a party line vote.
Allan Smith and Alex Moe | April 20, 2021
...House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday introduced the resolution to censure Waters, saying her comments, "raised the potential for violence, directed lawlessness, and may have interfered with a co-equal branch of government."
The resolution was tabled with a 216-to-210 party-line vote.
Waters made the remarks while appearing at a racial justice protest Saturday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb near where the Chauvin trial is taking place that has been roiled by protests after Daunte Wright, 20, was killed by police this month.
"We've got to get more confrontational," Waters told reporters when asked what would happen if Chauvin is acquitted...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-defend-maxine-waters-gop-cri...
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ETA
McEnany lectures Biden: 'It's the role of the president of the United States to stay back, to not inflame'
David Edwards | April 20, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/kayleigh-mcenany-derek-chauvin/
42margd
It’s intriguing the people who claim Covid deaths were overinflated from concomitant illness are the same people
who are saying people dying after the vaccine are dying from the vaccine and
not because we vaccinated the most elderly, frail, sick individuals with short life spans.
- Nicole Saphier, MD @NBSaphierMD | 9:03 PM · May 5, 2021
who are saying people dying after the vaccine are dying from the vaccine and
not because we vaccinated the most elderly, frail, sick individuals with short life spans.
- Nicole Saphier, MD @NBSaphierMD | 9:03 PM · May 5, 2021
43margd
Republicans promote pandemic relief they voted against
STEVE PEOPLES | May 6, 2021
...The Republicans’ favorite provisions represent a tiny sliver of the massive law, which sent $1,400 checks to millions of Americans, extended unemployment benefits until September, increased the child tax credit, offered housing assistance for millions of low-income Americans and expanded health care coverage. Republicans tried to negotiate a smaller package, arguing that Biden’s plan was too expensive and not focused enough on the nation’s health and economic crises.
...GOP lawmakers have been especially bullish about promoting the rescue plan’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which devoted $28.6 billion to the struggling industry.
...Beyond funding for restaurants, Republicans have also touted millions of dollars in health care grants allocated to their districts in the latest stimulus plan...
https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-g...
https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-g...
STEVE PEOPLES | May 6, 2021
...The Republicans’ favorite provisions represent a tiny sliver of the massive law, which sent $1,400 checks to millions of Americans, extended unemployment benefits until September, increased the child tax credit, offered housing assistance for millions of low-income Americans and expanded health care coverage. Republicans tried to negotiate a smaller package, arguing that Biden’s plan was too expensive and not focused enough on the nation’s health and economic crises.
...GOP lawmakers have been especially bullish about promoting the rescue plan’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which devoted $28.6 billion to the struggling industry.
...Beyond funding for restaurants, Republicans have also touted millions of dollars in health care grants allocated to their districts in the latest stimulus plan...
https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-g...
https://apnews.com/article/personal-taxes-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-g...
44margd
Daniel Dale (CNN Fact Checker) @ddale8 | 1:56 PM · May 7, 2021
(FL Gov) DeSantis signed these changes into law six months
after he boasted about how Florida was "the state that did it right" in the 2020 election,
four months after his Secretary of State boasted of how "safe, secure and orderly" things were there.
Quote Tweet
Daniel Dale @ddale8 · 1h
Florida law:
- New drop box limits
- More work to get mail ballots
- New limit on delivering others' ballots
- Ban on universal mail ballots
- New mail-vote ID rule
- More rights for partisans, more power for governor, harder line on registration groups
http://cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/fact-check-florida-elections-law-desantis-dro...
(FL Gov) DeSantis signed these changes into law six months
after he boasted about how Florida was "the state that did it right" in the 2020 election,
four months after his Secretary of State boasted of how "safe, secure and orderly" things were there.
Quote Tweet
Daniel Dale @ddale8 · 1h
Florida law:
- New drop box limits
- More work to get mail ballots
- New limit on delivering others' ballots
- Ban on universal mail ballots
- New mail-vote ID rule
- More rights for partisans, more power for governor, harder line on registration groups
http://cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/fact-check-florida-elections-law-desantis-dro...
45kiparsky
Republicans think it's easier to prevent people from voting than to come up with a platform that people want to vote for.
They're trying to tell us something.
They're trying to tell us something.
46JGL53
> 45
And, according to news reports, the dumb-asses are preventing a shitload of their own old white republican supporters from voting. They may be even coming out on the short end of the stick. Dumb-asses.
And, according to news reports, the dumb-asses are preventing a shitload of their own old white republican supporters from voting. They may be even coming out on the short end of the stick. Dumb-asses.
47margd
Jaw droppingly cheap trick, especially given failure to appoint commission on Jan 6:
Marco Rubio wants to pause student debt – but only to terrorism survivors
Florida senator introduced a bill to ‘provide a one-year pause for victims’ to ‘get back on their feet’
Lois Beckett | 10 Jun 2021 21.18 EDT
...The Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act would “provide a one-year pause for (terrorism) victims”, allowing them time to “get back on their feet”, or to apply for additional loan deferments, according to Rubio’s office...
https://theguardian.com/money/2021/jun/10/marco-rubio-student-loan-terror-attack...
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Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse | June 12, 2021 7:40 PM:
Rubio should follow this up by giving survivors of mass shootings a coupon good for one free small frozen yogurt.
Marco Rubio wants to pause student debt – but only to terrorism survivors
Florida senator introduced a bill to ‘provide a one-year pause for victims’ to ‘get back on their feet’
Lois Beckett | 10 Jun 2021 21.18 EDT
...The Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act would “provide a one-year pause for (terrorism) victims”, allowing them time to “get back on their feet”, or to apply for additional loan deferments, according to Rubio’s office...
https://theguardian.com/money/2021/jun/10/marco-rubio-student-loan-terror-attack...
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Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse | June 12, 2021 7:40 PM:
Rubio should follow this up by giving survivors of mass shootings a coupon good for one free small frozen yogurt.
48margd
The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln | 5:52 PM · Jun 15, 2021:
21 House Republicans just voted against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police officers
for the bravery they displayed on January 6, 2021.
The 21 Republicans were:
Biggs
Boebert
Clyde
Cloud
Davidson
Gaetz
Gohmert
Good
Gosar
Greene
Harris
Hice
Massie
Miller (IL)
Moore (AL)
Norman
Perry
Rose (TN)
Rosendale
Roy
Steube
______________________________________________
ETA:
Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney | 9:40 PM · Jun 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1404977058267213838
On January 6, as the violent mob advanced on the House chamber,
I was standing near @RepGosar and helped him open his gas mask. The Capitol Police led us to safety.
It is disgusting and despicable to see Gosar lie about that day and smear the men and women who defended us.
Quote Tweet
Josh Gerstein (Politico) @joshgerstein | 4:39 PM · Jun 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1404901405291319310
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), at House hearing, says Capitol police officer was ‘lying in wait’ for Ashli Babbitt before shooting her.
Again says Babbitt was “executed” by police, demands name of officer involved in shooting
21 House Republicans just voted against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol Police officers
for the bravery they displayed on January 6, 2021.
The 21 Republicans were:
Biggs
Boebert
Clyde
Cloud
Davidson
Gaetz
Gohmert
Good
Gosar
Greene
Harris
Hice
Massie
Miller (IL)
Moore (AL)
Norman
Perry
Rose (TN)
Rosendale
Roy
Steube
______________________________________________
ETA:
Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney | 9:40 PM · Jun 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1404977058267213838
On January 6, as the violent mob advanced on the House chamber,
I was standing near @RepGosar and helped him open his gas mask. The Capitol Police led us to safety.
It is disgusting and despicable to see Gosar lie about that day and smear the men and women who defended us.
Quote Tweet
Josh Gerstein (Politico) @joshgerstein | 4:39 PM · Jun 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1404901405291319310
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), at House hearing, says Capitol police officer was ‘lying in wait’ for Ashli Babbitt before shooting her.
Again says Babbitt was “executed” by police, demands name of officer involved in shooting
49margd
Hollis Felkel @ChipFelkel | 10:01 AM · Jul 29, 2021
Pro Life? Or really primarily pro-Birth?
Pro-Life but Pro Death Penalty?
Pro-Life but Anti-Vax?
Pro-Choice and also Pro-Vax?
Pro-Liberty but Anti-Immigrant?
Anti-tax but Pro Corporate Incentives.
.......The Contradictions of today's Political Environment.
____________________________________________
Pro-police, but anti-1/6 commission?
_____________________________________________
ETA
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (CNN) @ananavarro | 2:33 PM · Jul 28, 2021
Blue Lives Matter - except Jan. 6th
Tough on terrorists- except white nationalists
My body, my choice! - for masks & vaccines only
Cancel culture’s bad - except when I do it
Deport undocumented - except my nanny
No big govt - except banning private business requiring proof of vax
Pro Life? Or really primarily pro-Birth?
Pro-Life but Pro Death Penalty?
Pro-Life but Anti-Vax?
Pro-Choice and also Pro-Vax?
Pro-Liberty but Anti-Immigrant?
Anti-tax but Pro Corporate Incentives.
.......The Contradictions of today's Political Environment.
____________________________________________
Pro-police, but anti-1/6 commission?
_____________________________________________
ETA
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (CNN) @ananavarro | 2:33 PM · Jul 28, 2021
Blue Lives Matter - except Jan. 6th
Tough on terrorists- except white nationalists
My body, my choice! - for masks & vaccines only
Cancel culture’s bad - except when I do it
Deport undocumented - except my nanny
No big govt - except banning private business requiring proof of vax
50margd
If you are more upset about the Taliban entering the Afghan presidential palace
than you are about American domestic terrorists forcibly entering the Capitol Building,
then you should rethink your priorities.
- Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy | 5:57 AM · Aug 16, 2021
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ETA: https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1427435010387189762/photo/1
than you are about American domestic terrorists forcibly entering the Capitol Building,
then you should rethink your priorities.
- Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy | 5:57 AM · Aug 16, 2021
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ETA: https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1427435010387189762/photo/1
51margd
A former Pence aide says Trump and Miller tried to stymie Afghan refugee efforts.
Michael D. Shear | Aug. 21, 2021
...A homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence accused the Trump administration of distorting the truth about Afghan refugees, writing on Twitter that the former president and Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, sought to prevent the refugees from entering the United States.
In an interview, Olivia Troye recalled sitting in meetings where Mr. Miller demanded restrictions on refugees, including those from Afghanistan and Iraq. She said the reductions in the refugee program during the Trump years hollowed out the government’s ability to bring the interpreters and others to the United States.
“Now we are in this crisis and they are saying Trump would have evacuated them,” Ms. Troye said. “But he didn’t in four years. You don’t get to play revisionist history here. There are people who know what the situation is.”
...President Donald J. Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed in recent days that his administration would have handled a withdrawal from Afghanistan better than President Biden, whom he criticized for failing to evacuate Americans and Afghans who worked with the United States. Top conservative commentators, including Ben Domenech, have tweeted in support of Mr. Trump.
(Pence Homeland Security aide 0livia) Troye sought to rebut those claims on Twitter and in an interview, claiming instead that Trump administration officials had worked to undermine the immigration system that brings Afghan and Iraqi allies into the country by granting them a Special Immigrant Visa indicating they had supported the American war effort.
Mr. Miller “& his enablers across gov’t would undermine anyone who worked on solving the SIV issue by devastating the system at DHS & State,” she wrote on Twitter.
...The Biden administration has said it is only allowing fully vetted Afghans into the United States. But in a series of tweets last week, Mr. Miller warned against bringing “millions” of Afghans to the United States.
“Bottom line: if we are not careful, all we could have to show for 20 years in Afghanistan is a failed terror state, a humanitarian catastrophe, and an immigration policy that has brought the threat of jihadism inside our shores,” Mr. Miller wrote.
“If we want to safely and effectively assist the *millions* of people likely leaving Afghanistan,” he added, “the focus must be on regional resettlement — not mass relocation inside the United States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/asia/pence-troye-trump-miller-afghan-re...
Michael D. Shear | Aug. 21, 2021
...A homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence accused the Trump administration of distorting the truth about Afghan refugees, writing on Twitter that the former president and Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, sought to prevent the refugees from entering the United States.
In an interview, Olivia Troye recalled sitting in meetings where Mr. Miller demanded restrictions on refugees, including those from Afghanistan and Iraq. She said the reductions in the refugee program during the Trump years hollowed out the government’s ability to bring the interpreters and others to the United States.
“Now we are in this crisis and they are saying Trump would have evacuated them,” Ms. Troye said. “But he didn’t in four years. You don’t get to play revisionist history here. There are people who know what the situation is.”
...President Donald J. Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed in recent days that his administration would have handled a withdrawal from Afghanistan better than President Biden, whom he criticized for failing to evacuate Americans and Afghans who worked with the United States. Top conservative commentators, including Ben Domenech, have tweeted in support of Mr. Trump.
(Pence Homeland Security aide 0livia) Troye sought to rebut those claims on Twitter and in an interview, claiming instead that Trump administration officials had worked to undermine the immigration system that brings Afghan and Iraqi allies into the country by granting them a Special Immigrant Visa indicating they had supported the American war effort.
Mr. Miller “& his enablers across gov’t would undermine anyone who worked on solving the SIV issue by devastating the system at DHS & State,” she wrote on Twitter.
...The Biden administration has said it is only allowing fully vetted Afghans into the United States. But in a series of tweets last week, Mr. Miller warned against bringing “millions” of Afghans to the United States.
“Bottom line: if we are not careful, all we could have to show for 20 years in Afghanistan is a failed terror state, a humanitarian catastrophe, and an immigration policy that has brought the threat of jihadism inside our shores,” Mr. Miller wrote.
“If we want to safely and effectively assist the *millions* of people likely leaving Afghanistan,” he added, “the focus must be on regional resettlement — not mass relocation inside the United States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/asia/pence-troye-trump-miller-afghan-re...
